Multidimensional poverty index

Multidimensional poverty index

Percentage of the population that is multidimensionally poor adjusted by the intensity of the deprivations. See Technical note 5 at http://hdr.undp.org for details on how the Multidimensional Poverty Index is calculated.

Source: Calculated based on data on deprivations in education, health and living standards from ICF Macro Demographic and Health Surveys, United Nations Children's Fund Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys and some national household surveys as listed in table 6 of Statistics Annex.

Data in the tables are those available to the Human Development Report Office as of 15 November, 2013, unless otherwise specified.